[sailwave] Sept 24 version

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Hi Doug,

Agree with all your comments; it's just part of the evolution of the 1.58
beta that some stuff has been taken out as part of the generalisation; it'll
be put back soon - e.g. the fleet selection when publishing competitor
lists - it has to be more general now though - now that fleets do not have a
special status. Also the split tables is a draft thing - I agree it needs
more structure. I'll probably do it by extending the template facilities to
give the user more control - but I was hoping to get away with it until I
start work on the publishing enhancements :slight_smile:

Regards,
Colin J
www.sailwave.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Gordon [mailto:dgordon@seattleyachtclub.org]
Sent: 29 September 2004 00:52
To: Colin Jenkins; Colin Jenkins; Colin Jenkins
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Sept 24 version

Dear Colin:

As we bounced emails about a week or so ago, the functionality of the
evolution of start / fleet / scoring is a great step for Sailwave.
The only critique I have, save some of those already brought to your
attention would be with respect to publishing, and yes I can go in and
edit the HTML by hand to get exactly what I might want, but when
finishing a 200 boat event after 2 or 3 days of sailing this is
unlikely to either be enjoyable, or mistake proof on the first go
through. Much better to get it close from the onset. With this in
mind:

1) We normal put out Competitor lists to outline the handicap
classbreaks prior to the events. Previously this was easily sorted
and displayed based upon Fleets. Now when a competitor list is
published it does not break apart on Fleet (although it can obviously
be sorted by this or any other parameter) and is a little more
difficult to visually interpret. Potentially could a user defined
parameter be optioned for parsing the resultant HTML page (similar to
the Fleet function before, with the incorporated Boldfaced Fleet
headers in the tables.)

2) This is just visual tinkering, but in 1.58, the results pages with
each Scored Field given its own heading, the inability to turn off the
Race detail, and each Race and Scored field given its own heading in
the detailed results (Race Results) is a little busy. Potentially a
more elegant solution with Race Name then each scored field as a
sublevel under that would work better. A minor item is the tables are
now dissimilar; building to the size of the contained data, to my eye
this looks a little less presentable than when the tables are uniform

Again, the changes, after you outlined them to me, are very beneficial
and broadly expand the utility and flexibility of the scoring
software, this is the important part of the evolution of the software.
The critique above is just esthetics, but they do have some functional
uses, and are the presentation of the software's data. Thanks again
for all your work and effort, and please let me know if there is
anything I or SYC can do to support its continued development.

Best regards,

-Doug Gordon

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Director of Sailing

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